I find sometimes soundtracks only work well within the film, and not as a collection of songs flung on to an album. Anyway, here are some of my personal favourites for varying reasons.
Tank Girl is all about the soundtrack (which was compiled by Courtney Love), cuz lets face it, it's a bit of a crap film. I still enjoy watching it for old times sake though. And quite possibly cuz the soundtrack ties each scene together pretty well.
I love many of the songs in
Ghost World, but particularly like the original score composed for it by
Daivd Kitay:
And
All Over Me got me into a lot of bands I only dreamed of existing at the time. One of the songs which I continue to have much love for even 12 years after seeing it (Christ!

) is
Hole In The Ground by Helium. Mary Timony (from Helium) is now one of my favourite female solo artists because of it. And of course it features this awesome song by
The Amps.
Like Tank Girl
SubUrbia hasn't really stood the test of time, and is also another film which is mainly held together by it's soundtrack. Gotta love the version of
Sunday by Sonic Youth on there. There's also a Butthole Surfers track in it.
Nowhere is another favourite cuz of the Sonic Youth, Hole, Chemical Brothers, and Elastica tracks.
And I hate it when they put different versions of songs in the film to the soundtrack album. That's always been a pet hate of mine.
